Tag: writing

If good writing were a textile art, it would be a tapestry. A tapestry of character, dialogue, action, narrative, inner monologue, theme, setting, voice—all the elements of fiction woven together artfully into polished prose. Your goal: Writing a tapestry.

The first thing agents and editors often ask writers about their work is: How long is it? Answer that question wrong, and you mark yourself an amateur. Here’s how to answer the right way—and fix your story with Paula’s How-to-Cut Formula if it’s too long….